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Canadian women biathletes grin, bare it to raise cash
Members of the Canadian women's biathlon team are taking their clothes off to raise money for training and competition expenses heading into the 2010 Olympic Games. Canada's five elite female biathletes launched a nude calendar Wednesday by roller-skiing through downtown Calgary. They were clad in shorts, tank tops and race bibs and had their rifles strapped to their backs.... more
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Press Release: Tony Bernardo receives the 2008 Global Leadership Award
PHOENIX - Aug. 27, 2008 -- The Second Amendment Foundation, a U.S. based organization dedicated to promoting a better understanding about the heritage privately to own and possess firearms, has awarded the prestigious 2008 Global Leadership Award to the Canadian Institute for Legislative Action’s (CILA) Executive Director, Tony Bernardo... more
Have Firearms Owners Become Second Class Citizens In Canada?
After two decades of crass political vilification by politicians of all stripes, it appears that firearms owners have become the latest victims of ignorance and prejudice.
In a move obviously fueled by irrational bigotry, Thames Valley School Board Director, Bill Tucker, has refused a five thousand dollar donation to a secondary school drama class because the money was raised at a shooting competition. "I do not feel comfortable accepting money from any organization associated with guns," Tucker said.
This is the third year the Ontario International Practical Shooting Confederation provincial match has donated a large sum of money to the drama class. The money was accepted the first two times. ...
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Calgary Police Chief calls gun bans 'weak-kneed' The Calgary Herald
"I'm tired of when serious events like this (happen), politicians trot out the same tried and tired old solutions of 'we're going to ban certain types of weapons, or make it more restrictive.' They're not getting it. These are criminals who use illegal means to perpetrate illegal activities," he said.
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Press Release: Firearms owners FIRE BACK against Toronto Mayor David Miller
CSSA and CILA establish www.TorontoTheBAD.com
In an unprecedented move, Canadian firearms owners have fired the next salvo in Toronto Mayor David Miller's vicious war of extermination against Canada’s trustworthy firearms owners. On May 26th, Mayor Miller announced he would push forward a resolution to ban sport shooting clubs and businesses from the City of Toronto.
Canadian Institute for Legislative Action (CILA) Executive Director Tony Bernardo stated, “If war is what David Miller wants, war is what he’ll get. But he needs to remember, there is one of him and two million of us.” He added, “Mayor Miller has been slandering us for years, calling us “so-called law abiding gun owners” and accusing sport shooters of 'fuelling Toronto’s drug and gang problems.' “Miller is lying to the people of Toronto because he lacks the courage to deal with Toronto’s real crime problems.” ...
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Handgun Facts for Toronto City Hall
Tony Bernardo of CILA, at the request of a Toronto City Councilor, has created a fact sheet on handguns. This document and one detailing the steps necessary to obtain a licence to own a restricted firearm were emailed to all the councilors and their executive assistants. This is the info that Toronto City Council has. You may download those documents here...
Handgun Quick Facts (PDF 128K)
How legally to obtain a restricted handgun. (PDF 68K)
 New "No McGuinty Blame Game" Poster.
Ontario Liberals want to ban your guns. Help get the message out.
Download the poster, print them out, and stick them up everywhere. Available in JPG format, in four sizes:
8.5x11, 8.5x14, 11x14, 11x17
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Sewell: Cops spew gobbledygook on gun facts (The Bulletin 2008/07/08)
Gun clubs have been chased out of the city by city council’s decision at the end of June, ... but much remains to be learned about the real world of guns in Toronto. If you turn to the Toronto police to learn about guns in the city, you’ll end up confused if not bamboozled. ... Let’s not beat around the bush: the information in the police Statistical Report is gobbledygook. It provides no assistance in telling the public what is happening about guns in Toronto. ... Any student who submitted this as an explanation of anything would have received a failing grade. The Toronto police force spends more than $800 million a year. Is this the kind of information on which it bases its decisions?
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Handgun ban no answer (The Sudbury Star 2008/07/02)
Every time someone is killed in Toronto, city politicians, with Mayor David Miller leading the choir, start screaming out against the presence of guns in the streets. They want us to believe these crimes are caused by the presence of guns. Unfortunately for them, this very convenient explanation doesn't hold water. In fact, people don't kill because they have the guns, but they look for guns because they want to kill. The question the mayor should ask is why they kill and not focus so much on how. Unfortunately for him (and Torontonians), he's had the answers for many years but he decided not to pay any attention... (more)
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In America, a man's home is still his castle (Colby Cosh, The National Post 2008/07/02)
In last week's U. S. Supreme Court decision in District of Columbia vs. Heller, which finally affirmed that the "right to bear arms" promised in the American Constitution applies inalienably to individuals, flamboyant Justice Antonin Scalia described handguns as the "quintessential self-defense weapon." We in Canada are so accustomed to thinking of handguns as some sort of specially infectious social menace that it has become shocking, even for a gun-rights proponent, to hear their merits -- merits of a specifically moral sort --enumerated by the spokesman for a branch of a neighbouring government.
"There are many reasons that a citizen may prefer a handgun for home defense," Scalia wrote, ridiculing the proposed constitutionality of local measures that might restrict handgun possession only. "It is easier to store in a location that is readily accessible in an emergency; it cannot easily be redirected or wrestled away by an attacker; it is easier to use for those without the upper-body strength to lift and aim a long gun; it can be pointed at a burglar with one hand while the other hand dials the police."
Imagine it: a judge taking the right of armed household self-defence as a given! The words seem to float to us from some alternate universe very far away, one where the old common-law principle that "a man's home is his castle" was never annulled... (more)
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Feel-good bans don't reduce violent crime (Lorne Gunter, The National Post 2008/06/02)
In advocating for a ban on handguns in his city, Toronto Mayor David Miller is breaking no new ground. National and municipal gun bans have been tried throughout the developed world and always with the same result: Gun crime remained the same or went up after the ban. In other words, Mr. Miller will this week ask the executive committee of Toronto City Council to adopt measures to curb gun crime that have been tried over and over elsewhere only to have failed each time... (more)
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Canada is becoming a tyranny of politeness (The National Post 2008/02/03)
It's a strange country we live in. For all the talk we hear about how brave men fought and died to keep Canada a free country, we sure don't act like a free people... (more)
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Handgun ban would only make things worse (The Telegraph Journal 2008/01/24)
As Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day commented to the Canadian Press on Friday, "You don't make headway against firearm crime by going against innocent firearm owners." Indeed, as Canada has tightened restrictions on firearms ownership, violent crime, particularly home robberies and burglaries, have increased... (more)
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Handgun bans don't work (The National Post 2008/01/22)
If restricting ownership of handguns among ordinary law-abiding citizens had a positive impact on crime, our existing laws would already have produced the benefits. Elsewhere, too, handgun bans have proved useless. Washington, D.C., for instance, which routinely ranks among America's murder capitals, has had a ban on handgun ownership for more than 30 years... (more)
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Despite what Mayor Miller says, a ban on handguns would do little to quell gun violence in this city -- just look to the U.K. for proof (The Toronto Sun 2008/01/22)
[After handguns] were banned, a report by the Centre for Defence Studies at London's prestigious King College indicated the use of handguns in crime rose 40% in Great Britain -- from 2,648 incidents in 1997-98 to 3,685 incidents in 1999-2000 -- and concluded that the ban served to only target legitimate gun owners, and did absolutely nothing to target criminals... (more)
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A boy becomes a man, then a hunter (The Kingston Whig-Standard 2007/11/19)
A school assignment teaches a valuable lesson in life for a father and his son. I took my boy hunting and he came back a man. Back in November, Take Your Kid To Work Day for Kingston high school students sounded to me like a good excuse for hunting. Not that a hunter ever needs an excuse. I asked my 14-year-old son, Conor, if he wanted to accompany me on a work day for a story about hunting. Silly question. He leapt at the opportunity. There are fewer hunters in 2007 than there were 10 years ago. Kids growing up in urban environments don't have many chances to connect with nature, not in the way their rural counterparts do. .. (more)
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Legislation unfairly targets hunters' firearms (The Windsor Star)
Deer season has just begun in most areas of the country. While hunters pursue their prey in the wilderness, the gun control advocates pursue their hunting tools. [They have] begun a media campaign to pressure the Conservative government to enforce one of the most intrusive pieces of legislation for gun owners since the Firearms Act was passed in 1995... (more)
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Founder of the National Firearms Association remembered (Edmonton Journal)
A celebration of the life of Dave Tomlinson, the man who founded the National Firearms Association of Canada, is being held today in Edmonton. The lives of many Canadians changed the night police rolled up to Mr. Tomlinson's local home years ago and seized a prized collection of firearms. Mr. Tomlinson made up his mind that night to get involved in an organization to protect and advise law-abiding gun owners of their rights... more (here) and (here)
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Sunday gun hunting negotiations continue (mykawartha.com)
The topic of Sunday gun hunting is back on the table after the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters (OFAH) held two public meetigun hunting ngs on the issue on Saturday. Earlier this year, the OFAH approached city council about supporting Sunday gun hunting. Council said OFAH should run a series of public meetings. The ban applies only to gun hunting, those who use bows can do so any day of the week and residents are allowed to shoot animals that threaten their property on Sundays as well... (more)
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 Handgun ban idea off-target (Charles W. Moore, Halifax Daily News)
Evidence suggests measure is not only useless, but also harmful
A salute to Nova Scotia Justice Minister Murray Scott, and Liberal Leader Stephen McNeil, for refusing to climb on the bandwagon being rolled out (yet again) by Ontario's Liberal government and Toronto Mayor David Miller ... all a blanket handgun ban would achieve would be to punish and gratuitously penalize legitimate, law-abiding handgun users, while doing essentially nothing to take illicit firearms out of the hands of thugs and criminals... (more)
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 Gun show bigger than ever (Hanna Herald)
The annual Gun and Antique show was held July 21-22 at the Hanna curling rink. ... Crowfoot MP Kevin Sorenson was at the rink for the day, taking in the show with his family. “Hanna is the centre of my constituency,” Sorenson said. “The Hanna gun show is one of the best gun shows there are. “It’s good to have so many people out and it’s a great show. There’s a lot of interest still in the sport.” Sorenson also said the show was great for bringing people out to the town. “Hanna does a great job hosting this, so we’re very pleased they continue to do it year after year,” Sorenson said. “People keep coming up to me and asking me what’s going on in government,” Sorenson said. “Lots of people will ask what’s happening with the gun registry and when something’s going to be done about it.”... (more)
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Federal gun registry has not improved public safety despite costing taxpayers more than $2 billion (Canada News Wire)
Canada's homicide rate and number of gang-related murders has increased since the federal government's firearms registry and licensing program was implemented, an indication that the program has failed to improve public safety, according to Hubris in the North, The Canadian Firearms Registry, a new report from independent research organization The Fraser Institute... (more)
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 Armed and Licensed: Concealed carry law hitting mark (Tulsa World)
Ten years later, officials say gun-carrying citizens responsible, deterring crime. In the beginning, some people thought a wave of shootings by license holders would occur, but those fears have proved to be unfounded, Brown said. "There's very little of that, quite frankly," she said. "Most people don't want to hurt each other."
"They didn't have confidence in law-abiding citizens like I did, but they do now," said [Frank] Shurden, a Democrat from Henryetta. "They claimed that every fender bender would be a shootout." "They (license holders) have to be good, upstanding people. That's one reason it worked so well," he said.
"I've always been of the opinion that when good, law-abiding citizens are armed, we're all safer. I'm real satisfied with the way the law is working."... (more)
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 Jaime's got a gun (The Fayetteville Observer)
Jaime Heflin looked down the barrel of her loaded rifle, centered her target and aligned her sights... In her ear, her father’s voice encouraged her to be calm and remember what he told her. She squeezed the trigger of the BB rifle. Her assailant — the empty Pepsi can — was no more. Heflin is 23 now and looks back with fondness on her childhood when her father, a gun enthusiast and collector, taught her how to properly handle and fire guns. Heflin, a consultant with Mary Kay Cosmetics, is joining the growing ranks of women who are buying guns for self-defense and home protection... (more)
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Ottawa rejects call for handgun ban (Globe and Mail)
Ottawa — The federal Conservative government has rejected Ontario's call for a ban on handguns. ... Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day suggests such a move would be useless, and might do more harm than good. ... Mr. Day says other jurisdictions where handguns have been banned, including Britain and Ireland, have seen the numbers of gun crimes increase... (more)
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Firearm registry has few parallels to U.S. example. (Timmins Daily Press)
Unending controversy over the Canadian firearm registry and the attempt to connect it to the unfortunate incident in Virginia fail to observe some very simple logic. Unlike in the U.S.A., all firearm owners in Canada must pass a safety test, which includes storage and safe gun handling, and a physical police screening. In order to obtain a permit to own or acquire firearms, spouses, and even divorced spouses in some cases, must also sign the application. ... To even imply that the registration of long guns can or will be able to "save lives" is naive, illogical and ridiculous... (more)
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Gun licenses safe choice. (Ohio State Lantern)
When Florida liberalized its restrictive and disjointed system of concealed carry laws in 1987, many states followed suit. In each case, naysayers predicted everything from "blood in the streets" to "parking lot shootouts." Just as regularly, after each state changed the law to allow more law-abiding citizens to carry concealed handguns, the results were peacefully anticlimactic. Within a year or so after a law changed, a law enforcement or political figure would be quoted in an article admitting they were surprised that there had been no major problems... (more)
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 When mass killers meet armed resistance. (Classically Liberal)
It took place at a university in Virginia. A student with a grudge, an immigrant, pulled a gun and went on a shooting spree. It wasn’t Virginia Tech at all. It was the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, not far away. ... Many students heard the shots. Two who did were Mikael Gross and Tracy Bridges. Both immediately ran to their cars. Each had a handgun locked in the vehicle. ... He and Gross both approached [the shooter] Odighizuwa at the same time from different directions. Both were pointing their weapons at him. Bridges yelled for Odighizuwa to drop his weapon. When the shooter realized they had the drop on him he threw his weapon down. ... His killing spree ended when he faced two students with weapons. There would be no further victims that day, thanks to armed resistance... (more)
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Anti-firearms nuts dead wrong (Calgary Sun)
Sheeplike behaviour won't make us any safer when gunman arrives The geek with the gun is back, this time at Virginia Tech, and the death toll of 32 innocents brings the anti-firearms nuts out of the woodwork, elbowing one another out of the way in their haste to be first to climb to the top of the pile of corpses to trumpet their message. Jack Layton and Stephane Dion and Sheila Copps all dusted off their tired, old morally and intellectually bankrupt acts and took them on the road again. They are the Neville Chamberlains of the modern age. If only we're made more defenceless, more sheeplike, somehow only then will we be safe... (more)
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Ohio Sheriff Wants State to Place Guns in Schools (officer.com)
Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones suggested assigning law enforcement officers to each school or training select school officials to handle weapons and enforce laws, and commissioning those officials as Ohio Peace Officers. Jones admitted his plan would likely be expensive and would not prevent school shootings, but he said armed personnel would limit the number of casualties in such an event. "The safety of all Ohio students is paramount," Jones said. "These students are our children; they are our future. We must do anything we can to protect them as much as possible." ... (more)
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Pistol-packing ex-Miss America, 82, thwarts thug (Edmonton Sun)
WAYNESBURG, Ky. -- Miss America 1944 has a talent that likely has never appeared on a beauty pageant stage: She fired a handgun to shoot out a vehicle's tires and stop an intruder... (more)
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 Tories quietly extend long-gun registry deadline (CTV.ca)
The Conservatives are giving hundreds of thousands of long gun owners in Canada a reprieve -- exempting them from having to register their firearms for another year, CTV News has learned. The move is being applauded by firearms advocates who have opposed the registry for years... (more)
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Montague back in court to resume firearms challenge (Kenora Daily Miner and News)
Believes strongly his defiance of the Firearms Act is right and just
Firearms activist Bruce Montague will back in Kenora Superior Court on Monday to resume his challenge to have Canada’s Firearms Act declared unconstitutional and keep him out of jail. “By challenging the validity of the firearms law itself, I’m asking the court to acknowledge that the law is criminal, not me,” said Montague. “It depends on how much the judge wants to make an example of me,” said Montague. Although he believes strongly his defiance of the Firearms Act is right and just, the possibility of going to prison is weighing heavily on him and his family... (more)
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Guns Don't Kill People, Gun Control Kills People (Reason Magazine)
Uganda terrorizes its own citizens under the auspices of UN gun control mandate.
For months now, Ugandan army troops have been garrisoned in the northeast part of the country under orders to disarm the local populace—pastoral, cattle-herding tribes known as the Karamojong. The army is attempting, and failing, to quash an uprising which was caused by a prior attempt to disarm the same tribes. But in its effort to "disarm," the Ugandan army, supported by tanks and helicopter gunships, is burning down villages, sexually torturing men, raping women, and plundering what few possessions the tribespeople own. Tens of thousands of victims have been turned into refugees. Human rights scholar Ben Knighton has used the term “ethnocide” to describe the army's campaign... (more)
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Repeal D.C.'s gun law (Washington Times)
Just a couple of weeks ago, Mayor Adrian Fenty acknowledged the obvious: "We have one of the highest homicide rates in the country but at the same time have the strictest [gun] law." Of course, his solution was that every place else needed more gun control. Then this week, D.C. Council member Marion Barry and three other lawmakers proposed suspending the city's 30-year-old handgun ban. For 90 days, Washingtonians should be able to buy and register handguns. It is a good start, though a permanent repeal would make more sense... (more)
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 Shoot ’em up Saturdays (Saanich News)
In 1955, Tom Askey never thought twice about strapping his .22 calibre rifle to his back, jumping on his bicycle and pedaling his way down Glanford Avenue. Times might have changed, but Askey still has fond memories of his time with the Saanich police boy’s club... (more)
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"...It's going to take the kind of massacre that kills lots of children. That's the only way we are going to see progress." (Gun Control Canada.org)
...according to Bryan Jones, director of the Center for American Politics and Public Policy at the University of Washington, on what the anti-gun lobby needs to further its agenda.
The anti-gun lobby has a public and private agenda that is not about safety for citizens, its about ideology, and always has been. Proper analysis of statistics from all sources do not support a significant public health risk greater than most other things, from the ownership of firearms by citizens. In fact, statistics indicate that firearms ownership by responsible people reduces risk from crime... (more)
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"There's Nothing Cukier Than A Gun Control Nut" (SmallDeadAnimals.com)
[Wendy Cukier,] The head of the Canada's main gun-control lobby denounced [school trustee] Ms. Gregson's comments as well ... "It's an absurd comment. It's completely contrary to Canadian traditions. It has no basis in fact, and for someone who is associated with schools to be making those comments is particularly alarming, especially a woman." ...
Well, Ms. Cukier... here's a comment from a woman. I hope you find it alarming. ... That any individual would presume to define "acceptable" thought for an entire gender is completely contrary to our western democratic traditions, not to mention, an insult to all Canadian women. Suffice it to say, Wendy Cukier - you don't speak for me... (more)
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Vancouver school trustee on cover of gun magazine (News 1130)
A photo on the cover of a well known gun magazine has landed a Vancouver school trustee in the centre of a major controversy...She says Canadians need to broaden their thinking about gun ownership because they aren't just used to commit crime and acts of violence. She says guns also useful in self-defence... (more)
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The head of the National Rifle Association comes up to Toronto to say gun owners everywhere face the same threat to their rights (Mark Bonokoski, Toronto Sun)
Sandy Froman is ... president of the four-million-strong NRA, one of the largest and most powerful lobby groups in the U.S., and only the second woman to hold that post in the NRA's 132-year history. "And I haven't met a gun yet that I didn't like," she says. Jewish, soccer-(grand)momish, and a West Coast lawyer now living in Tucson, Ariz., the 57-year-old Froman is is as unstereotypical as it comes when looking for the stereotypical perception of the gun crowd. And this is not lost on the woman herself. In Toronto over the weekend to address the national convention of the Canadian Shooting Sports Association (CSSA), Froman said being a victim of crime was the prime motivator for her buying her first gun. (more)
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Kiwis go for the big guns (Stuff, NZ)
The police national manager of firearms licensing and vetting, Inspector Joe Green, said people should not fear firearms because New Zealand had a positive gun-safety record. "While we do keep an eye on it, people who keep them have demonstrated themselves to be fit and proper," he said. According to police figures, firearms were involved in 621 violent offences last year, less than 1.3 per cent of all violent offending. ... In recent years, New Zealand also had lower gun-related deaths per capita than in the United States, Canada, Australia and France... (more)
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McLellan censured over gun registry (Ottawa Citizen)
"Evidence suggests that the minister knew, and she did nothing to ensure Parliament was fully informed and for that she must accept responsibility," concluded a majority report by the public accounts committee tabled this week. (more)
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Nattrass aims to go out with a bang (The Edmonton Journal 2008/07/08)
Veteran trapshooter named to Canada's four-person team pursues Olympic medal that has eluded her
The first woman ever to fire a shotgun in competition at the Olympic Games would like to go out with a ... gold medal next month in Beijing. This will be the sixth and final Olympic competition for 57-year-old trapshooter Susan Nattrass, who was officially nominated to Canada's four-person team on Monday by the Shooting Federation of Canada... (more)
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 Hunters give turkeys another shot in the fall (Flamborough Review 2008/07/04)
Wild turkey hunters who had no success in the spring hunt are going to get another chance in the fall. The spring hunt is for gobblers only, and two can be taken if an additional tag is purchased. The fall hunt will be for one bird of either sex. The fall season has been approved in Wildlife Management Units 64, 67, 68, 73, 76, 77, 78, 81, 82, 84, 90, 92, and 93... (more)
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 Rimfire rifle rodeo (Quesnel Cariboo Observer 2008/07/02)
Shooters take aim at moving targets and each others’ egos. The crack of small-calibre rounds and the crazed ring of ricochets are interrupted only by good-natured heckling. “Yeah, they sure like to tease each other,” Quesnel Rod and Gun Club director Michelle Pelletier observed... (more)
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 Shots fly at gun event (Central Plains Herald-Leader 2008/07/01)
More than 30 trigger-happy youths opened fire on Portage la Prairie on Sunday. The small battery of junior gunners competed in the 2008 Manitoba Junior Shotgun Associa-tion Championships held at the Portage Plains Gun Club. “The competition was fantastic,” said event organizer and chairman of the Manitoba Junior Shotgun Association Lorne Ross. “The kids shot great, the weather was beautiful and the facility was wonderful.” ... (more)
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 New era in sights for gun club (Castlegar News 2008/05/28)
The Silver City Trap and Skeet Club are shooting for their facility upgrades to be completed by the fall of this year. “We’ve grown from a standard trap and skeet club to a full service club, one of the best in Western Canada,” said past club president John Torbic... (more)
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Black powder memories  (Alberni Valley News 2008/05/23)
The West Coast Rangers Black Powder club hosted their annual rendezvous over the May long weekend. Members of the public came out to watch the shooting, knife and tomahawk events on Saturday. The cannon event drew spectators Sunday evening... (more)
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 Tandy’s sights on Whistler for 2010 (Prince George Citizen)
Megan Tandy, you have arrived. The Prince George biathlete treated the 2007 calendar year as though it was an on-ramp to the freeway running directly to the door of the Olympic Games. Tandy, 19, went from national junior team prospect to an underaged phenom threatening to unseat veterans holding down spots on the Canadian World Cup squad... (more)
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Elaine Brown honoured with the 2007 Shooting Federation of Canada coach of the year award. (St. Thomas Times Journal)
“I enjoy seeing the success of my athletes and whatever I can do to help them move forward.” The accomplishments of athletes and teams coached by Elaine Brown at regional, provincial and national events is extensive. In recognition of her contributions, Brown was honoured with the 2007 Shooting Federation of Canada coach of the year award... (more)
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One-year trial for Sunday gun hunting (mykawartha.com)
A City committee is recommending that Sunday gun hunting go ahead on a one-year trial basis starting next year. "Of those in attendance, 142 indicated they support Sunday gun hunting in the City of Kawartha Lakes, 20 did not."... (more)
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 Shooting meet features meat (Powell River Peak)
A tip of the cap went to Kevin Phillips, who, as the top shooter in two categories, won the top gun and rifleman's hats in a recent shooting competition. The annual hamburger shoot held at the Powell River Rod and Gun Club featured good weather. This shoot is held with rimfire rifles and the format is decided just prior to the shoot. This year's shoot required participants to start with five shots from the leaning position at a 100-yard target. Then came five shots from the prone position at the same range. The next five shots again were from prone position at a target 20-yards away, and finally, five shots were fired sitting at 20-yards' distance... (more)
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 Arviat gun shop opens with a bang (Northern News Services)
"It's kind of a new sort of business up here," said Suluk, adding he hasn't heard of any other gun shop in the Kivalliq region. ... The One Shot Gun Shop is a welcome addition to the community, according to Johnny Mamgark, mayor and board member of the Arviat Hunters and Trappers Organization. ... "If you come to Arviat, in almost every household, there's a hunter. People here all know how to use firearms," said Mamgark. "It's tradition to teach our kids and grandkids how to use a firearm. I have a grandson who is five who shot his first caribou last year with his own little rifle." ... (more)
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 GOLD for Canada's big gun in Rio (The Edmonton Journal)
Ex-Edmontonian ends her Pan Am career on top
The first thing Canadian flagbearer Susan Nattrass did after winning the Pan Am Games gold medal in the women's trap shooting event on Tuesday was grab a cellphone and call her coach, who also happens to be her mom, Marie. "Mom, I won," the 56-year-old Nattrass told Marie back in Gibson's, B.C., as the tears that come so famously and easily to the international shooting legend began to well. "I won the Pan Ams."... (more)
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 GOLD: Chao top shooter at Pan Am Games (CBC)
Wins women's 10m air pistol competition
Avianna Chao could hardly contain herself — and that was before she was declared a gold medallist Monday at the Pan American Games. Chao made it three first-place finishes for Canada in Rio de Janeiro when she topped the field in the women's 10-metre air pistol competition with a score of 468.9. "This is so very exciting — my heart was jumping out of my body," said the Toronto shooter. "I tried to stay calm with some deep breathing and just tried to shoot the best that I could."... (more)
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 Shooters keep it all in the family (The Regina Leader-Post)
Kahl Boll's and B.J. Hunt's interest in trapshooting is relative. Both shooters were introduced to trapshooting by their fathers. Kahl Boll's father is Rod Boll, a world-class trapshooter who calls Fillmore home. B.J. Hunt became interested in trapshooting after seeing his father, Randy, shoot. All four family members were in Regina on the weekend for the Saskatchewan trapshooting championships... (more)
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Welland native in international military competition (Welland Tribune)
Sgt. Christian Desilets is competing in the Central Skill at Arms Meeting.
Sgt. Christian Desilets of Welland, a member of the Canadian Forces national rifle team, is in England to compete in an international military competition. He and his team are ranged against teams from Australia, Oman, Ireland, and Falkland Islands. "Our level of competitiveness and our performance are a true testament to the calibre of the soldiers serving in the Canadian Military," said the team captain, Capt. Christopher Strain... (more)
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Military Shooting Team Going to England (Department of National Defence)
A 14-member team drawn from Canadian Navy, Army and Air Force units across the country will compete in the British National Rifle Association Service Competitions at the historic National Shooting Centre at Bisley in Surrey, England from June 29 to July 12. The shooters, coming from various provinces of Canada, will compete in combat rifle and pistol events - both as individuals and as a team. This elite team includes the best-scoring members of the Regular Force unit rifle team and the highest Regular Force and Reserve individual scorers of the Queen's Medal Competition... (more)
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 Ready, Aim, Fire! (SooNews.ca)
Steve Scott demonstrates his historical firearm at the annual Summer Rendezvous - Coureur du Bois encampment held this weekend at the Ermatinger Old Stone House. The heavy weapon is known as a Pennsylvania Long Rifle or Kentucky Long Rifle. Guns such as these were considered state of the art for over 300 years and were featured in many a war in the New World... (more)
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 Local girl proud to be a member of Walden Irish Regiment (Sudbury NorthernLife.ca)
Megan Jones is a confident, bright, articulate young woman who credits much of her early success in life to her military training. ... Jones is an accomplished sharpshooter who has qualified to become one of 21 members of the Cadet National Rifle Team, which will leave for Ottawa in late June before taking off to England for an international competition... (more)
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Shooting gallery big hit at show (Peterborough Examiner)
The Peterborough Fish and Game Association had a booth at the recent Peterborough Outdoor and Adventure Show in Peterborough. This was the fourth year that the PF&GA has had a booth at the show. This year PF&GA had the CSSA's Falling Plate Shooting Gallery and the OFAH's Laser Shooting Range to entertain the attendees. As always it proved to be a very successful event for everyone who participated. For quite a few youngsters, this is the first time that they have fired a gun... (more)
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Concentrating on nothing aim of straight-shooting cadets (London Free Press)
With the rifle stock resting in my left palm and the butt pressed against my right shoulder, I peer through the scope and recall the advice I got from Scott Jarvis. "Don't pull the trigger," he said. "Squeeze it." The teen from the town of Lawn, Nfld., knows what he's talking about. He's one of 120 sea, army and air cadets from across Canada here at Fanshawe College for the National Cadet Marksmanship Championships, a five-day competition that ends today... (more)
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Eastern Ontario county is latest to approve Sunday gun hunting (Ottawa Citizen)
BELLEVILLE — Prince Edward County south of Belleville in eastern Ontario is the latest jurisdiction in Ontario to vote to allow Sunday gun hunting. All Ontario municipalities now have the right to extend the gun hunt to Sundays by passing a bylaw... (more)
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Biathlete goes 'out with a bang' (Etobicoke Guardian)
Though he is a newcomer to the sport, Etobicoke's Ian Campbell is still undefeated in biathlon competitions. Campbell won all four events he entered this season in the sport which combines cross-country skiing and shooting. Campbell capped off his hugely successful first year in the sport by winning his category at the national cadet biathlon championships held earlier this month in Whitehorse. "I went out with a bang," he said. "Now I just have to wait until next year and go out and do it all over again.".. (more)
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 Top guns hold victory in sight (Powell River Peak)
IN THEIR SIGHTS: Krista Whyte and Mike Kaban captured second place in the rod and gun club's partner's shoot, where pairs shared a firearm between them and shot at identical targets.
Powell River Rod and Gun Club's partners shoot, pairing new shooters, was won by Warren Miller and Dan Greene, taking top scores in every position. The partners shoot is a fun way to get new shooters out to participate in the sport. Targets are shot first by the captain, then by the partner, who shoots an identical target from the same position. The exception is the moving target, shot at by both team members for a total score... (more)
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Hunters stuck in red tape (Thunder Bay's Source)
When I was turning 16, there were two things that were at the forefront of importance in my life. Although most 16 year old guys might say one of them was girls, I have to say although they were on my mind, it was the acquiring of my drivers license and the ability to get my hunting license that intrigued me more... Today, if you want to be a firearms owner, be prepared to give up your first born and lose one appendage. The lunacy involved, is something less desirable and more and more people are giving up their firearms due to the government-inflicted red tape and hassle that is getting worse every year... (more)
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Ice fishing derby (ParrySound.com)
The Whitestone Rod and Gun Club is hosting their first ice fishing derby on Whitestone Lake and have a range of terrific prizes for the winners. The cost per hole is $50 per adult and $20 for youth 16 and under. The grand prize for the adults is $1,000, second is $750 and third is $500. For the youth, the grand prize is $500, second is $200 and third is $100... (more)
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Local athletes competing in Canada Winter Games (Northernlife.ca, Sudbury)
It’s not the Olympics, but for Dave Endleman and Destiny Gratton, it’s the next best thing. The pair is travelling to the Yukon Feb. 22 to compete in the Canada Winter Games. Endleman and Gratton are both competing in the biathlon. There are 20 other events at the games, which runs from Feb. 23 to March 10. “It’s kind of a once in a lifetime thing so it’s pretty exciting. There’s a lot of hype about it. It’s a bigger experience than just competing in nationals for one event because you get to go support Ontario as a whole,” Gratton said... (more)
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Sunday hunting approved in Whitestone Township (North Star)
It’s confirmed, hunters in Whitestone won’t have to take a break on Sunday if their game is in season. Council unanimously passed a resolution last Monday, February 19, upholding the previous council’s position allowing Sunday gun hunting within the municipality’s boarders... (more)
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Biathletes have ‘tremendous potential’ (Whitehorse Star)
You can’t go wrong with guns, skis and spandex. At least that’s the opinion of 16-year-old Yukon biathlon athlete Jodi Gustafson. “I think it’s going to be a really high energy environment up here,” says Gustafson of the 2007 Canada Winter’s biathlon competition that will take place at Grey Mountain. Gustafson first got involved in biathlon when she was 14, after her dad had told her she was a “good shot” and suggested she combine her gift for shooting with her enjoyment of skiing... (more)
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 Awards night for the Rod and Gun Club (The Golden Star)
It was a family affair for many of the award recipients who turned out for the 23rd annual Rod and Gun Club Dinner and Awards night Saturday, Jan. 27, at the Golden Civic Centre. Kelsi, 14, and Kierra Soles, 13 (left), captured first and second place respectively for their marksmanship in the mule deer category. Both girls have been hunting for a few years and are proving to be stiff competition for their peers... (more)
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Have Rifle Will Travel (Opinion 250)
Megan Tandy of Prince George was the top Canadian and fastest North American placing 13th out of 46 in the 10km individual race at the World Youth Biathlon Championships in Italy. Tandy, a member of the Caledonia Nordic Ski Club, is competing in her second world youth finals... (more)
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Announcement of Ontario Card nominations and Appeal Procedures -- 2006-2007 Quest for Gold Athlete Assistance Program (CSSA)
The Canadian Shooting Sports Association would like to thank and congratulate the talented athletes who have been nominated for Ontario Cards under the 2006-2007 Quest for Gold Ontario Athlete Assistance Program (OAAP). The athletes nominated were selected using the sport specific selection criteria developed by Canadian Shooting Sports, approved by its Board of Directors and applied by (the) CSSA Athlete Selection Committee... (more)
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Cadets come home with medals (Kamloops This Week)
All six of members of the 204 Black Maria Royal Canadian Air Cadets came home with medals after competing in the Okanagan Zone Cadet biathlon competition in Vernon at the beginning of the month... (more)
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Bag a trophy, save a species (New Scientist)
Newscientist.com article supports trophy hunting
An environmental article on newscientist.com on January 6 has looked at several countries and found strongly in favour of hunting as a tool of effective conservation. When hunting is being effectively used, the revenue it generates encourages the local population to crack down on poachers and to use their own methods appropriate to the area and species to maintain healthy game populations... (more)
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Great-grandmother, 80, bags first deer (Associated Press)
Gladys Schaefer likes to get things done. The 80-year-old western Kentucky great-grandmother followed that mantra in her first outing as a deer hunter. She bagged a doe within 30 minutes in late November. "Don‘t stop doing things ‘til you‘re in the grave!" Schaefer says. "She‘s a totally amazing woman," said Mark Lynn, her son-in-law... (more)
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 Excellence promoted on range (Comox Valley Record)
Promoting excellence in shooting, members of the 1726 Canadian Scottish Army Cadets can earn badges for their marksmanship. According to retired Capt. Steve Rowe, the standard for earning the crossed rifles badge is a score of 75 out of 100, while the crossed rifles and crown badge requires a score of 85 out of 100... (more)
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Smith & Wesson takes shot at hunting market, buys Thompson/Center Arms (Canadian Press)
In a US$100 million deal announced Monday, the Springfield gun-maker said it is buying Thompson/Center Arms, a privately held Rochester, N.H.-based company that specializes in muzzleloaders and rimfire rifles. The move lets Smith & Wesson Holding Corp. target the $1.1 billion long-gun market, which is about 80 per cent larger than the country's handgun market, chief executive Mike Golden said in an interview... (more)
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